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Which means the analogy was successful.

Sure, if he's saying he is powerless against higher powers. But if he's trying to make a quantitative assertion, a qualitative analogy is not the right tool.

The purpose of an analogy is to simplify something that's too hard to understand for the person you try to convey your idea to

An analogy applies a principle to a common setting without loss of specificity. Specifically the dedicated adversary is lost in this abstraction, so it's a bad analogy.

So, the problem still stands, theoretically.

Not only do you likely need to populate your host with packages not from your host. But also, your host will also still be connect to a public net, even if only indirectly (e.g. private net), and hence potentially manipulated.

If a business card can delight people who receive it, then it has a point.

The first rule of the advertising club is AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action. A business card should draw attention, if only to distract from the terribly clichéd action of handing over a business card :)